A menacing troublemaker angrily threatened a petrol station worker with a hammer and warned him: “That’s going in your face.”

He told the man: “You’re getting this” and was later found with a “sinister-looking” knife, a court heard.

Dane Smyth, 29, of Isaac’s Hill, Cleethorpes, admitted making threats while possessing a hammer as an offensive weapon, using racially aggravated threatening behaviour and having a craft knife in public on November 1.

Jeremy Evans, prosecuting, told Grimsby Crown Court that a petrol station worker got involved in an argument in the street between Smyth and his girlfriend.

The next day, the woman went into the Cleethorpes petrol station and the member of staff asked how she was.

Smyth found out about this and went there to tackle the man about speaking to his girlfriend.